Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Stockhausen chaotic music and communism

It's amazing what you learn On An Overgrown Path.G...

2008-03-17T18:31:09.771Z

It's amazing what you learn On An Overgrown Path.

Google - 'Falun Gong divine performing arts orchestra'.

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/dance/reviews/story/0,,2259708,00.html

Henry Holland is correct. The "Epoch Times" is pub...

2008-03-17T18:04:00.000Z

Henry Holland is correct. The "Epoch Times" is published by the Falun Gong cult, a group that is currently being persecuted in China. They certainly are strange, however.

Falun Gong -http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2922644...

2008-03-17T17:30:23.016Z

Falun Gong -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2922644

I only wish orchestral music and opera had as much...

2008-03-17T17:24:00.000Z

I only wish orchestral music and opera had as much power as that he thinks it does, the power to topple governments and entire political ideologies.

Blah blah blah civilization collapsed when tonality did blah blah blah. How freakin' boring a premise that is.

He's a Falun Gong advocate, so he's not exactly playing with a full deck.

As another blog says - Pliable always has the best...

2008-03-16T21:11:27.057Z

As another blog says - Pliable always has the best junk, doesn't he? This is grade-A quality smack to get your morning started off right:

http://www.analogartsensemble.net/2008/03/special-comment-on-music-history.html

Well, that's fairly jaw-dropping stuff. To pick up...

2008-03-16T13:35:00.000Z

Well, that's fairly jaw-dropping stuff. To pick up on just one part of one sentence ...

When this chaotic music appeared, atomic bombs, communism and cold war also surfaced. He believes this chaotic music in no small way contributes to the chaos in modern times.

Remarkable - the Communist Manifesto (1848) was (apparently) influenced by Romantic Music, which was based on "higher principles and values." I guess that the chaotic music of the twentieth century just perverted the whole thing.